These are real issues. One question: why have a YouTube video that is just you reading the text? The text is already on your page.
Lessons I've Learned as a 15 Year Old Web Developer
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#62I'm sorry but I just am a little incredulous that a 15 year old would be talking to me about burnout.. or about team conflict. Op have u worked a full time job with other devs and if so for how long?
My experience of working on teams has mainly consisted of working with other web developers online. On the topic of burnout, I was trying to explain how as I was learning web development and working harder everyday, I got exhausted mentally and didn't know how to come back from it.
I shouldn't have assumed a 15 year old couldn't experience this stuff. Best of luck you seem to be doing well
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#63Have you thought about adding a “How to hire me” section?
I couldn’t find it.
Never be afraid to ask for the sale.
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#64Good for you. Very impressive. Side note, I think your 2nd lesson heading has a typo:
"Not Others Asking For Help" looks like it was supposed to be, "Not Asking Others For Help."
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#65When 2020 started, I began to learn SEO and content marketing. I am currently working on helping bring commercial cleaning to the 21st century at getonedesk.com. On the side, I'm learning React Js at home while working on growing a loyal audience. Being a web developer is difficult, stressful, confusing, and exhausting. But, it's also very exciting, interesting, and meaningful. I've learned many lessons during my jou…
Bro listen this is everything I'd tell my 15 year old self and I probably wouldn't listen but maybe you will
We write code for people not machines -- any 12 year old can code and see the pretty output but only a master can write code for people to understand. Remember code is twice as hard to read as it is to write but think of it as the ultimate design document, the single source of truth for a team
As a knowledge worker your role is to amass and disseminate knowledge think of yourself as a teaching professional like a tutor and abandon academic mark chasing ideology in favour of hyper learning
When we talk about DRY we're not only referring to code but also to repeating the same conversations and behavior patterns. Look at your work like an investment not just a trade of services for money -- seek ways to maximize the returns on your efforts and don't be swindled by people seeking to divorce you from the fruits of your labours by forcing you into narrow stereotypes -- they'll call you a ninja talent as a means to lower your guard you feel me?
Take it from someone who has been in software since before dialup everything we do is actually a conversation, it's no coincidence we call them languages and the quality of conversation determines the quality of the software it's a practical view of Conway's principle
Do your best and try to see beyond the curve at the application of computer science thinking to human behaviour after all software is a social exercise and in general a software solution is aimed at creating new communications pathways between people
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#67I know everybody's mileage varies, but these were some of my lowest priorities 20 years ago when I was a 15yo webdev.
I wanted to have fun. I built for me. I explored the depths of the internet to get experience with what could be done, and pushed a few boundaries myself. I made games. I wrote appalling code but that didn't matter because I kept moving forward. I built communities around my interests. I just had fun.
I'm going to lose points for this but 15yos shouldn't be worrying about coverage or quality metrics or critique. You're a child. Enjoy it while it lasts.
My second tip is to not get addicted to being in the spotlight. Getting your blog posts onto various front-pages is like cocaine. I mean that. Even after everybody's moved on, you'll still want more and more. That's where burn out lies.
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#68It's really awesome you're making stuff online so early in your life. Keep going and you will be way more successful than most of us. If I may, I'd like to offer some constructive criticism, however. The tone of your posts is a bit instructional (self-help-esque) and comes across as marketing. This is why some people are being dismissive of your writing. I'd consider softening up the tone to be more personal and auth…
Why, is there a threshold of making stuff that once you cross you are "more successful than most of us"?
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#69I'm sorry but I just am a little incredulous that a 15 year old would be talking to me about burnout.. or about team conflict. Op have u worked a full time job with other devs and if so for how long?
Wait till you hear about his 3 divorces and mortgage.
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#70I know everybody's mileage varies, but these were some of my lowest priorities 20 years ago when I was a 15yo webdev. I wanted to have fun . I built for me. I explored the depths of the internet to get experience with what could be done, and pushed a few boundaries myself. I made games. I wrote appalling code but that didn't matter because I kept moving forward. I built communities around my interests. I just had fun…
Not just blog posts, but comments. I enjoy discussing stuff with others, but I hate seeing that number at the top of the page go up, because it goes to my head, and I can't stop checking it.
Up- and down-votes are necessary for sorting and moderation purposes, but I wish it was less visible to me. There should be a "noscore" option on HN that hides the scores unless you view individual comments/posts, like "noprocast".